Spoke to a number of people today about the Makerspace, so we may well see new people dropping by at open sessions or on the forum here - specifically some amateur radio enthusiasts who don’t have anywhere to meet at present, and sounded interested in the space,

There is planned Community day where the goal is to have Jams in loads of locations on the same days
3rd/4th March 2017.

I’m planning to get to the space more often after August and happy to be involved with setting up a Jam at The Boileroom. It would be good to fit one in before the 3/4th March so we can apply for the Jam Starter Kit that includes worksheets, stickers, flyers and (if it’s still the same) 10x Pi-stop (https://4tronix.co.uk/store/index.php?rt=product/product&product_id=390)
Then when we register for the Jam weekend there is another kit.

I have access to 7 24" monitors, so this would help in putting in place a workshop setup.
At Egham we had people working in pairs and did 2 sessions. It worked well even with people who didn’t know each other.

Let’s give ourselves a goal of November.

So,

who’s up for working with me to organise (once I’m back from holidays)?

who has things to share that we be put on as part of the show and tell?

Who’s up for doing running a workshop?

The space is 3D printing central. Maybe a beginners guide to 3D printers/printing
Also, maybe a more advanced session. I’d expect people have 3D printers and only ever printed things (badly) from thinkiverse.

Response from The Boileroom

Any Sunday is fine, but earlier in time would be better, in case we get a gig booking in the evening.
So something like 12 - 3 or 4 would work best.

Thinking over lunch isn’t ideal, but 12:00 - 3:00 would give enough time in the morning to set up and enough time afterwards to pack out and clear the space for any bands playing in the evening.

Now it’s up to us to pick a Sunday in November.
Thinking 5th, 13th or 19th November for the first Jam

Then 4th March 2018 for second one. I cannot make any events this weekend as it’s my daughter’s birthday but it would be good to go ahead with the Jam as this is a World Wide activity that could create exposure for the Makerspace.

1st SH Makerspace Raspberry Jam at The Boileroom
SH Makerspace is group of people to like to make, tinker and share.
The SH Makerspace Raspberry Jam is primarily a Show and Tell event where people bring along their projects for you to try out and...

Let me know if the listing needs to be modified.
Think more is needed on the makerspace.

Great the pack has arrived.
Until now we have 18 registered to attend.
I’m going to email the Egham Jam mailing list to see if any of them are interested.
Does anyone have other means of getting the word out.

Have we committed things for the event?
I can bring ZeroBall which is now Halloween themed (12th November is still OK, right…)

With space limited I can bring along 5 Raspberry Pi setups for people to use and play with on the day.
Using these I could do a proactive workshop on using Scratch and/or Python.

Singing octopus can make it. Julian asked if we should use the event pack stuff for workshops…

I’d suggest asking whoever you talked to at the Boileroom to see if they can include an ad for it in their weekly email (give them a graphic/link to include).
Leave ads in Guildford library, local university, ad in local paper maybe?